Faith in the Inner City (St Alban’s School and Academy)

Peter T. Marsh

This is a story of the convergence of two
forms of faith in the inner city brought together by the social and religious
reconstruction of a neighbourhood that both sought to serve. Highgate, always
one of the poorest wards in England, touched the heart of two Victorian priests
who built schools and churches to serve the destitute. Twenty-first century
educational reformers insisted that children in poor inner-city neighbourhoods
could do as well as those in affluent suburbs. The fusion of these faiths has lifted
St Alban’s School, now Academy, to national distinction.